Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 14, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Is Content Curation an Easy Way for Content Marketers to Do More With Less? Google News, aggregating content via RSS feeds and social bookmarking sites have been around for a while. Heck, even MS Word kept flagging curation as a misspelled word.

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Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 22, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website The Distribution Trap – How Innovations Become Commodities by Achinta Mitra on April 22, 2010 in Industrial Marketing Strategies , Sales Strategies I read an eye-opening article by Andrew R. Non-core functions such as sales and distribution should be outsourced.

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 17, 2010

To deepen and strengthen this relationship, marketers (and sales) must optimize the “return on time spent” by increasing the value received through each touchpoint. Source: IDC Analyst Connection: Coordinating Marketing and Sales across the Entire Revenue Cycle.) It is not just optimizing words within your marketing content.

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The Effective Marketer

MAY 10, 2010

More recently even Twitter mascots have been showing up as a company’s public face. The company reported $9.7 In 2008, revenues were up to $16.6 Here are some highlights of the Aflac duck’s impact: First year after the duck’s introduction, sales were up by 29%. That’s what makes them memorable.

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Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 20, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Social Media and B2B Marketing Do Pair Well by Achinta Mitra on April 20, 2010 in B2B Lead Generation , Industrial Marketing Strategies , Social Media Marketing , Social Networking For a while, it was difficult to find hardcore data to make a business case for social media.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 7, 2013

This week: From ExactTarget , a case study about how women’s fashion retailer Caché used cross-channel marketing to generate enormous sales. The RSS feed is: [link]. “The company’s willingness to embrace social as a means to this very fast news cycle has helped, but also just being able to plan. Listen Now .

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Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website 101 Tips from 50 Small Business Bloggers by Achinta Mitra on September 29, 2009 in Industrial Marketing Blog , Industrial Websites , Social Media Marketing I came across an incredible blog post recently that I think every small business owner should read.

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Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 21, 2010

an industrial and business-to-business (B2B) marketing communications company in Houston, Texas. He is the Founder & President of Tiecas, Inc. – Achinta offers his industrial clients marketing for engineers by an engineer. This white paper aims to change that perception of them. Get Engineers Can Sell white paper now.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 7, 2010

Here are some of the key findings from the study: Emerging Trends: 61% of the respondents (500 total) cited Driving Revenue as the most important success metric as compared to Sales Accepted Opportunities (40%), Qualified Leads (39%) with website visits and click-through rates trailing way at the back at 12% each. How has your role changed?

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Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 26, 2010

an industrial and business-to-business (B2B) marketing communications company in Houston, Texas. How are you using content marketing in your B2B marketing? Achinta offers his industrial clients marketing for engineers by an engineer. This white paper aims to change that perception of them. Get Engineers Can Sell white paper now.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 19, 2010

Even if you have carefully segmented your target audience by demographics, different people within the same company can and do react differently to your content. Understanding and building accurate profiles of different personas requires a close alignment between sales and marketing. He is the Founder & President of Tiecas, Inc. –

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 24, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Social Media with Email Marketing – is it the Super Combo? It is a joint presentation by Omniture, an Adobe company, and ExactTarget on the best practices of Email and Social Engagement. Do you have any good examples of social media used in email marketing?

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 10, 2010

an industrial and business-to-business (B2B) marketing communications company in Houston, Texas. Sign up now » | Read current issue » Subscribe via RSS Be the first to know about a new post. He is the Founder & President of Tiecas, Inc. – Achinta offers his industrial clients marketing for engineers by an engineer.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 29, 2009

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Business Value of Social Networking by Achinta Mitra on July 29, 2009 in Social Media Marketing , Social Networking Saw a very interesting video where Seth Godin talks about how useful social media is to businesses. He is the Founder & President of Tiecas, Inc. –

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 29, 2010

Most CEOs of manufacturing, engineering and technical companies do not believe in the value of brand building and consider it the domain of consumer marketing (B2C). Yes, GE and Microsoft sell directly to end-users but they are primarily B2B companies. Branding is an expense item like the rest of marketing. Definitely not.”

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 18, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Top 10 Clichés to Avoid in B2B Marketing Content by Achinta Mitra on May 18, 2010 in B2B Marketing Collateral , Content Marketing , Industrial Marketing Strategies You can find plenty of clichés used (overused?) in B2B marketing content.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 29, 2010

The New Rules of Engagement: CMOs Rethink Their Marketing Mix is based on a survey of 314 marketing executives at companies with more than $500 million in annual revenue. Just 59% of companies now measure customer engagement; 36% do not. The primary metrics measured are retention (58%), sales (44%), and revenue per customer (35%).

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Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Content Auditing and Mapping it to the Industrial Buy Cycle by Achinta Mitra on September 3, 2010 in B2B Lead Generation , Content Marketing , Industrial Marketing Strategies , Integrated Industrial Marketing These days it is popular to say “Content is marketing currency.”

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

March 14th, 2008. The results of this study will be presented at WWW2008 , the 17th International World Wide Web Conference which will be held on April 20 to 25, 2008 in Beijing, China. In its March/April 2008 issue , Technology Review has published a series of articles about the 10 Emerging Technologies of 2008.

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Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

It is critical that your company be found early and often in the initial phases if you hope to make it to the short list of vendors who are asked to submit a RFQ. There are many of them out there to suit every type of marketer, from small industrial companies to large enterprises. Not every action needs to be scored.

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 3, 2010

However, accurately defining and measuring customer engagement in complex business or industrial sales is still elusive. However, it is not so simple to measure customer engagement in situations with long sales cycles that’s commonplace with manufacturers, sellers of technical products and B2B consultative solution providers.

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Industrial Marketing Today

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Are You Creating Irresistible Offers with Your Email Marketing? by Achinta Mitra on November 16, 2009 in B2B E-Mail Marketing Do you know the key component of email marketing that generates more high-quality leads and drives sales? What is it?

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 26, 2010

But not easy to execute because there usually is a disconnect between what your prospect wants to hear and what you want to say about your company and its products and services. an industrial and business-to-business (B2B) marketing communications company in Houston, Texas. Sounds simple, right? Get Engineers Can Sell white paper now.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 15, 2010

Success story #2: Developer of software suite for the upstream oil & gas industry The client’s old corporate website was designed by us to put a sharper focus on their target audience of reservoir and production engineers, operations personnel and upper management in oil and gas production companies.

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Industrial Marketing Today

OCTOBER 2, 2010

Go beyond the high-level demographics of SIC/NAICS codes and company size. WHEN : When on the sales cycle do you expect to engage with your prospects? And that begins with thinking like an investigative reporter by asking the 4Ws and the 1H questions. They are: WHO : Who are the intended recipients of your emails?

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 12, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website B2B Websites: To Publish Prices, Or Not To Publish…That Is The Question by Achinta Mitra on June 12, 2010 in Industrial Marketing Strategies , Sales Strategies , Website Design & Development Do you show prices on your B2B website?

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Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website B2B Lead Generation Using a Business Blog by Achinta Mitra on September 20, 2010 in B2B Lead Generation , Industrial Marketing Blog In B2B lead generation, quantity versus quality is probably the biggest challenge faced by industrial marketers.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JANUARY 26, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website The 6 essential rules of a website redesign – Ignore them at your peril by Achinta Mitra on January 26, 2010 in Industrial Websites , Search Engine Optimization (SEO) , Website Design & Development Is you current website an asset or a liability?

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JULY 28, 2008

July 27, 2008 at 9:05 pm. · During my blogging over the past four years I have pointed several times previous to an article in The Economist from January 2006 titled The New Organization ( The way people work has changed dramatically, but the way their companies are organised lags far behind. . via RSS: Via email: Search.

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Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 30, 2010

Give your company a reason to reach out continuously to those who find a particular topic relevant. Hold some in reserve to use as an offer during an inside sales call to follow-up. For example, if your company’s positioning changes and your content doesn’t match. There could be a number of reasons.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 3, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website How to Make Your Business Blog Be All It Can Be by Achinta Mitra on May 3, 2010 in Industrial Marketing & Web 2.0 , Industrial Marketing Blog Remember the U.S. How about your business blog, is it all it can be for your industrial company?

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 6, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Translate Features into Benefits if You Want Your Marketing Content to Engage and Sell by Achinta Mitra on July 6, 2010 in Content Marketing , Industrial Marketing Strategies , Sales Strategies Marketing 101 teaches you “Customers buy benefits and not product features.”

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Online Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

The common thread amongst these complaints is lack of 1) sales satisfaction and 2) lead quality. So what is it about some content syndication programs that create leads that sales reps don’t want? To the first issue: expectations, it’s important to recognize that content syndication leads are not like most sales leads.

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WebMarketCentral

MAY 18, 2009

What are some of the best free tools for monitoring social buzz about your brand or company? A high number of RSS subscribers is going to be your best Google indicator." How should you measure the impact of social media? How can you create effective online video content on a budget?

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 20, 2010

Having worked closely with many manufacturers and companies from the industrial sector, I have learned several valuable lessons about what works when it comes to marketing to engineers and technical buyers. an industrial and business-to-business (B2B) marketing communications company in Houston, Texas.

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Online Marketing Institute

AUGUST 14, 2011

After interviewing nearly 40 experts and working with Charlene Li and a bit of help from myself, she’s found six distinct use cases (see compass below) on how companies are measuring using these new toolsets. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 You can leave a response , or trackback from your own site.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 9, 2010

an industrial and business-to-business (B2B) marketing communications company in Houston, Texas. FREE Marketing Guides Engineers Can Sell™ White Paper: Most people are skeptical about associating engineers with sales. He is the Founder & President of Tiecas, Inc. – This white paper aims to change that perception of them.

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